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Show Portable 'Phone. The latost Hwooiah Invention that la being; discussed la a portable tele-phono. tele-phono. The specimens that have boon aont abroad have elicited unstinted pralae from Austrian, Russian, Oreok and Turkish experts who have tested thorn, and, whllo large demands and Inquiries for the new 'phone have corns from Franco, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the United States, those from Great Britain have been even more noticeable. Within tho cylinder of the telephone la email dry coll, the whole apparatus (Including; both recolver and mouthpiece) mouth-piece) being email enough to ro In the pocket. With each Instrument la ft coll of thin copper wire, and It la reckoned that a soldier could easily carry 13,000 feet of thla wlra wltb him. The uses suggested for the portable telephone are Innumerable, military considerations being Kept specially to the front. Outposts. It la declared could by Ita aid be kept In constant communication with the main forco, and It la pointed out that It would furnish ft valunble means of keeping In touch with hendipmrtcrs .or police nil flru brigades. For uso botween railway couches on moving train, for engineers at work underground or on (treat public works, for steamers, for cyclists and In many other fields It would ho most desirable. Now York Commercial |